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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810760803321

Autore

Ritzer George

Titolo

Explorations in social theory [[electronic resource] ] : from metatheorizing to rationalization / / George Ritzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, c2001

ISBN

1-4739-4605-0

0-7619-6773-7

1-280-37033-5

9786610370337

1-4129-3328-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 303 p.)

Disciplina

301.01

Soggetti

Social sciences - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-292) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Metatheorizing in sociology -- The deliniation of an underlying architectonic -- Sociology: a multiple paradigm science -- Toward an integrated sociological paradigm: image of the subject matter -- Potential exemplars for an integrated sociological paradigm -- Methodological relationism: lessons for and from social psychology -- From exclusion to inclusion to chaos (?) in sociological theory -- The implications of postmodern social theory for metatheorizing in sociology -- Rationalization and deprofessionalization of physicians -- The McDonaldization of society -- Hyperrationality: an extension of Weberian and neo-Weberian theory -- Mannheim's theory of rationalization: an alternative resource for the McDonaldization thesis? -- The McDonaldization of American sociology: a metasociological analysis.

Sommario/riassunto

Ritzer offers a description of the sociological condition in this text. It contains reflections on uses and missuses of metatheory and finds a way out of the confusion by sketching out the lineaments of an integrated sociological paradigm.